Shanghai, 1937.The city is divided but still functioning - a fragile anomaly of treaty law and routine holding back the advance of war. In the French Concession, Alexei Volkov makes a living moving things that cannot be moved openly: artifacts, money, documents, histories.When he is hired to extract a prestigious Chinese antiquities collection from Nanshi before the Japanese army arrives, the job appears difficult but straightforward. It is neither.A prior sale to a...

The mountain has stood for a thousand years. It is about to crack.Stonefast has endured for over a millennium - a vast dwarven city carved deep into the heart of a mountain. Its corridors stretch for miles. Its forges never cool. Its records are older than kingdoms.And its stone has always held.Until now.When Senior Structural Warden Borin Stonewake discovers a fracture where none should exist, the numbers refuse to make sense. Pressure is r...

Cressida is a medical anthropologist. She studies the history of how medicine has dismissed women's somatic experience - how symptoms that cannot be confirmed by available tools become symptoms that do not exist. She wrote the book on it. Literally. Chapter four of her monograph examines the diagnostic category of hysteria and how it was operationalised to contain the complaints of women whose bodies were doing things the instruments couldn't see.Now she is six weeks postpartum, an...

Our civilization will be the first in the entire history of the planet to unite the opposites: the technocratic world and the achievements of the divine creations. This is not a fantasy, it is the great future. We can sense it already, today.Tens of thousands of Russian citizens have already begun to materialize it. They are doing so without support from governments and states. Millions are dreaming of it, and I am no longer alone as a believer. People are not creating this future o...

Humanity will finally be saved or destroyed in the shattering conclusion to the post-apocalyptic and highly acclaimed NYT bestselling trilogy that won the Hugo Award three years in a row.The Moon will soon return. Whether this heralds the destruction of humankind or something worse will depend on two women.Essun has inherited the power of Alabaster Tenring. With it, she hopes to find her daughter Nassun and forge a world in which every orogene chil...

China is far away, you may need to cross ocean, cross continent and cross time zones to reach the country which is in the Far East. Psychologically speaking, if you don't understand Chines and can't read Chinese and also have never been to China, this can make the distance longer.This 70 pages ebook provides practical tips in making a better travel plan before departure, getting around, and shopping in China. Most importantly, it provides you with Chinese sentences and phrases for ...

Bram Stoker Award nominee for Best First Novel!"This claustrophobic, horror-leaning tour de force is highly recommended for fans of Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation and Andy Weir’s The Martian." — Publishers Weekly (starred review)The thrilling, atmospheric debut from the author of The Death of Jane Lawrence, a sci-fi horror novel with the intensive drive of The Martian and Gravity and the creeping dread of Annihilation, in which a caver on a foreign planet finds herself on a...

One of the most popular video games of all time, Minecraft has become a global craze thanks to nearly 40 million registered users worldwide across all platforms. In Minecrafter 2.0 Advanced, those who mastered the basics laid out in the first Minecrafter strategy guide now find tips on more complex areas of game play, including Redstone circuitry and other inventions, and advice for beating "The End." This must-have guide for even the most advanced of experts inc...

Welcome to Minecraft Crafting: 70 Top Minecraft Crafting Techniques Exposed! This book is a comprehensive guide about Minecraft's crafting system, how it works, and the 70 most useful crafting recipes and ideas. Minecraft is a popular game of creation played by millions around the world. The game offers a unique experience that ignites the player's interest on two things: mining, and building. The game gives players an exceptional degree of freedom that even the famous Grand Theft Auto ser...

The saga of Sword Art Online continues with three side stories set during the Aincrad and Alfheim eras. The game of death took its toll on every player in a different way--when one turns up dead on the fifty-seventh floor, the game's afoot, and it's up to Asuna and Kirito to crack the case. There's also the story of how Kirito got his Excalibur sword in Alfheim (with a little help from his friends). And when the game of death first began, Kirito learned a difficult lesson--one he ...

*. This e-book offers 5 of the most creative, unique and amazing structures that will make you stand out in the world of Minecraft in the most impressive way. So, whether you have aced the game or are only just starting out, read on to discover some of the most amazing structural wonders that can be created in Minecraft.Table of Contents:IntroductionWhat is Minecraft?How to Get Creative5 Amazing Structures----A Personalized Castle----A Ful...

The easy way to get started with MinecraftWant to creep into the biggest video game of all time? Grab your pickaxe and let's go! Minecraft Basics For Dummies helps you (or your kids) get started and join the infinite online world that keeps millions of players of all ages engaged every day. Inside this portable-trim book, crafters will get all the tips and tricks needed to get started—on their own or with multiple players—in each of the three gameplay mode...